President Trump, under coronavirus quarantine in the White House, is grasping for ways to put a spark back in his struggling re-election bid and mount a big comeback with four weeks left until Election2020 by steveholland1
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as he poses without a face mask on the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center for coronavirus disease treatment, in Washington, U.S. October 5, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo
Complications abound. Trump aides say he is impatient to get back on the campaign trail and insistent on debating Democrat Joe Biden on Oct. 15 in Miami, but Biden said on Tuesday he will not participate if Trump is not virus-free. Trump’s drive to get Judge Amy Coney Barrett confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate before the Nov. 3 election also may be in doubt, since three Republican senators have been infected with the virus and may not be able to vote.A wave of infections at the White House among Trump’s top lieutenants and press office aides has left the West Wing struggling to find its footing.
He depicted himself as a man who vanquished the disease and emerged stronger. “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” he said in a widely criticized tweet on Monday.
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